An Introduction of Portable Document Format (PDF)- Features And Whole History of PDF

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An Introduction of Portable Document Format (PDF)

Portable document format, PDF Document Format Portable - is, Adobe Systems is to develop and advocate, on an electronic document on the file format is. It was adopted by Adobe Acrobat released in 1993.

It has the property of being able to view sentences, images, etc. in almost the same state in all environments, regardless of the specific environment.

Adobe Systems has been releasing PDF specifications for free since 1993, but it is still a proprietary format developed by Adobe.

It was standardized as ISO 32000-1 by the International Organization for Standardization in July 2008.

Portable Document Format (PDF) features

PDF files can be generated from any printable document, and display and printing are free of charge, using software that is distributed for a fee. The main thing is Acrobat Reader (formerly Adobe Reader) distributed by Adobe Systems for free.

PDF has the following features.

The created document can be displayed and printed according to the original layout on computers in different environments

Can set document security

By compressing and storing data, the file size can be reduced

You can set useful functions when displaying a document on the screen, such as bookmarks, links, and annotations.

Use the forms feature to create a formatted document that accepts user input fields

Can create accessibility- friendly documents such as voice

It supports multimedia

The Whole History of PDF

1993: Adobe Systems releases PDF 1.0 and Acrobat 1.0.

1994: Adobe Systems starts distributing Acrobat Reader free of charge. This free distribution was a major factor in the spread of PDF.

1995: Adobe Systems Releases Acrobat Plug-in for Netscape Navigator. Promoted the use of PDF on the web browser.

1996: Adobe Systems releases PDF 1.2 and Acrobat 3.0. From this version PDF and Acrobat support Japanese.